--- title: Jeremiah 52:31 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him fort --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1476/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/52/) / [52:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.31/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 52:31 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. **Who acts:** Evil · **What happens:** come, pass, lift up, bring · **To what, where:** four thousand, head, Evil, prison This is Jeremiah 52:31 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:JER:1476 # text = And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 thirtieth thirtieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 conj _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 captivity captivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Jehoiachin Jehoiachin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 twentieth twentieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 conj _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 37 Evil Evil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 39 merodach merodach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ _ 40 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 47 amod _ _ 47 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 reign reign NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 52 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 53 up up ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 Jehoiachin Jehoiachin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 58 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 appos _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 64 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 obj _ _ 65 forth forth ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 66 out out ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 66 fixed _ _ 68 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 69 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | four thousand *= thousand* | | | day; month; year | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lift up** | past | Evil | the head Jehoiachin | | | year | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | past | Evil *not said here* | Evil | | prison | | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out prison=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיְהִי֩ בִשְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים וָשֶׁ֜בַע שָׁנָ֗ה לְגָלוּת֙ יְהוֹיָכִ֣ן מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֔ה בִּשְׁנֵ֤ים עָשָׂר֙ חֹ֔דֶשׁ בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ נָשָׂ֡א אֱוִ֣יל מְרֹדַךְ֩ אֱוִ֣יל מְרֹדַךְ֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֜ל בִּשְׁנַ֣ת מַלְכֻת֗וֹ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ יְהוֹיָכִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּצֵ֥א אוֹת֖וֹ מִבֵּ֥ית הַכְּלֽוּא׃ [Jeremiah 52:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.31/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1476` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 52:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1475/) - next →: [Jeremiah 52:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1477/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 52:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.31/)